using gita to move and sync repo structure between workspaces

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

Hi,

I have the following situation:
At my workplace I have numerous repos I am working with, and I have to work with them from multiple locations, like:

• a windows pc
• a linux pc
• a linux server

It would be helpful to me, if I could make sure that all repos I am working with are cloned at all these workspaces, so I tried to do this with:

gita freeze
gita clone -f

But that does not work, because gita freeze outputs the full, and not relative, path and my workspaces are located in different base directory.

Is there a workaround for this? Is gita an adequate tool for this?

Thank you!

[nosarthur]

How would the folder structure on a windows machine translate to a linux machine?

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

well it could translate if it would be all folders relative to a base folder.

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

Would you Accept merge requests for that, or would you say Gita is the wrong tool?

[nosarthur]

I am open for PR. Please describe your solution first

Overall I feel the gita freeze and gita clone commands are a bit unpolished. At the moment, gita freeze shows all repos instead of the repos in the current context.

There is a group concept, which defines a 'group root' path, which could serve the anchor for gita clone. But I'm not sure what to do with repos not in a group, or groups without 'root' path. Also what do we do for different groups with different 'root' paths?

[RudolfVonKrugstein]

Mmh, my naive Idea would have been, that one could specify a "relative" Parameter to "freeze" which would make all path relative to the current directory or to a Base path one has to specify when calling Git freeze.

Same with Gita clone, If the pathes are relative, the pwd or a specified Base dir ist used.

For using the group concept, one could allow to freeze only a single group at a time and making all path relative that groups Base path.